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Six production case studies, all shipped this year. A BPM playlist app live in both app stores, a marketing site, a full-stack platform, an enterprise dashboard, a technical spec book, and a smokehouse restaurant site. Every one of them is live right now.

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012026

Tempo Tunes

Set a tempo and pick your genres, or shape the whole ride with a rise, a peak, or a fade. Tempo Tunes builds playlists from an owned database of 1.4+ million verified-BPM tracks, growing every minute. Free to sign up, live on the App Store and Google Play.

UI/UXMobile AppFull-stackBrand
React Native · Expo · Next.js · SupabaseRead case study →
022026

Fortris Command

A production fleet-management dashboard. 35 pages, a drillable KPI card system, Zod-typed contracts, Recharts, and Leaflet maps, all holding together at enterprise scale.

UI/UXEnterpriseData VizDesign System
React 18 · TypeScript · Vite · Recharts · LeafletRead case study →
032026

Fortris.ai Marketing Site

Rebuilt a legacy Bootstrap marketing site as a Next.js 14 design system. Six theme tokens, five motion primitives, full static export. The same stack I'd build for you.

UI/UXFront-endMotionDesign SystemBrand
Next.js 14 · TypeScript · Tailwind · Framer MotionRead case study →
042026

Battle Motors Web Platform

Everything I sell in one URL. A 23-page React 19 front-end with motion graphics, plus the MySQL behind truck inventory and dealers, built with agentic AI.

Full-stackFront-endMySQLMotionBrand
React 19 · TypeScript · Framer Motion · PHP/MySQLRead case study →
052026

2027 Raider ICE Data Book

Took dense engineering spec data and made it a product you can read, search, and print. 20+ subsystem sections with a built-in search index.

Information DesignFront-endSearch
HTML · Search Index · Print PipelineRead case study →
062026

Salt & Fire Meat Co.

A full site for a working smokehouse in Ashland, Oregon. Seven static pages, every order button wired straight into Toast, and a specials board the owner runs without touching code.

UI/UXFront-endSmall Business
HTML · CSS · JS · Toast POSRead case study →
Selected design work / Before the build

The
Archives.

UI/UX, interaction, and industrial design from every chapter. The Kindle in your hand, a Samsung video device, a Romeo Power app, and the trucks on the road today.

07Amazon Lab126
2011

Kindle Software UX

Authored the interaction specs behind the Kindle's touch software. A multilingual on-screen keyboard across seven languages, plus Settings, Wi-Fi, registration, and passcode flows. Co-invented the Kindle virtual keyboard.

UI/UXInteractionPatent
E-Ink · Interaction Spec · HIGRead case study →
08Amazon Lab126
2011

Kindle Visual Design

The visual side of the Kindle. A font fix the experts missed, the 1-bit UI that made the device feel instant, the icon, and the author and Reading and Writing screensaver art.

Visual DesignArt DirectionTypography
E-Ink · Photoshop · Illustrator · WacomRead case study →
09Samsung ID8
2015

Palo Family Video Device

A presence-aware video device for families. Zero-setup pairing, perspective tracking that follows your face, ambient awareness, and a physical wheel to cut the camera dead for privacy.

UI/UXInteractionHardware
Connected Device · Interaction SpecRead case study →
10Romeo Power
2017

Saber Companion App

The companion app for the Saber power bank. Bluetooth pairing, live power-in and power-out dashboards, multi-device management, and critical battery alerts. Part of a product taken from concept to mass production.

UI/UXMobileHardware
iOS / Android · BluetoothRead case study →
11Bose Professional
2020

Bose Acoustical Modeling

Led UX and a design system for software that models how sound covers a room. A System Design mode that maps sound levels in dB across plan and section, plus Cassandra, the design system behind it. Shelved when Covid shut down live music.

UI/UXDesign SystemData Viz
Cassandra Design System · UX SpecRead case study →
12Samsung ID8
2016

Otto Home Robot

A home robot with a face you could trust. Samsung's answer to Jibo and Echo, but more endearing and emotional. Led the character and the face-first interaction model at the ID8 innovation lab.

InteractionRoboticsMotion
Connected Device · RoboticsRead case study →
13Battle Motors
2026

Battle Industrial Design

The physical side of Battle. One grille and bezel set designed to fit two different trucks on a single SKU to cut tooling cost, plus the Raider badge family. Led the industrial design team through production.

Industrial DesignHardwareBrand
Industrial Design · Production ToolingRead case study →
Built in 3D / Cinema 4D

3D.

The Battle Motors Raider. Built in Cinema 4D and optimized for the web. Drag to spin it. On a phone, drop it in your driveway and walk around it.

3D model of the Battle Motors Raider truck cab, rotatable
drag to spin · tap to re-frame

One model of many. The same hands that design the screen build the object on it.

Simulation / Violet Nova
Violet Nova, a looping purple particle burst simulated in Cinema 4D

Violet Nova. A particle burst out of Cinema 4D, cut to loop so it has no start and no end.